Pyloruria and Oxygen, Hormonal Problems, and Estrogen Intolerance

All of the following are from RHR: Could Copper-Zinc Imbalance Be Making You Sick?.  I highlighted all the parts that are relevant or interesting to me.

"So, pyroluria is a genetically determined chemical imbalance that involves a defect in hemoglobin synthesis, and hemoglobin is the protein, as I’m sure some of you know, that holds iron in the red blood cell and is responsible for delivering oxygen to the tissues.  So, every cell and tissue in the body needs oxygen and glucose to function properly, and if you’re not getting oxygen to the tissues, as is the case with anemia, nothing is gonna work right.  None of your cells are going to work right.  It’s one of the first things that I look at when I do a case review and I run a comprehensive blood panel on my patients is oxygen deliverability and blood sugar regulation because those two are what I call deal-breaker issues, meaning if they’re are out of whack, nothing else that we do is gonna be very effective until we get those two systems working properly . . ."

"You know, they go to the doctor and they might be experiencing poor stress control, nervousness, anxiety, mood swings, just a lot of psychological symptoms like feeling really tense, or episodic anger is one of the kind of classic signs, like explosive temper, poor short-term memory, and depression because they can’t create serotonin well."

"They have some of the functions of a neurotransmitter, so an imbalance in copper and zinc will lead to things like hyperactivity, ADHD, other kinds of behavioral disorders, and depression; and in fact, a lot of people who are labeled with autism and even paranoid schizophrenia, when they test their copper levels, they find out that they’re elevated.  Then high copper can cause severe PMS.  That’s another red flag for me where I’ll consider it.  It can cause estrogen intolerance, and it can cause skin issues, so people with excess copper have a high incidence of acne or eczema, psoriasis, just sensitive skin in general, sunburn, people who are really apt to get sunburned even if they’re only out for a short period of time, headaches, poor immune function.  Another characteristic sign is white spots under the fingernails . . ." 

". . . B1, B3, B6, folate, inositol, and choline, and those are all antagonistic to copper, and then there are some minerals that are antagonistic to copper, like zinc, of course, which we’ve been talking about, manganese, iron, sulfur, and molybdenum.  You want to be careful with the iron, though, of course, because if you are iron-loaded, you have too much iron, and you take iron to reduce copper, that may help solve one problem and cause another, or exacerbate another.  And then there are some studies I’ve seen that suggest that copper might be excreted by binding with glutathione, so yet another reason to maintain healthy glutathione levels; and glutathione levels are often depleted in cases of chronic illness and stress, so that’s another thing to pay attention to.  Then you want to improve the detox function of the liver and the skin.  You can do things like sweats and saunas.  And then, of course, you want to do a diet that is based on animal proteins and lower in the plant proteins that tend to be rich in copper, like the nuts and beans and seeds and grains, like I mentioned earlier. "

(All quotes above are from RHR: Could Copper-Zinc Imbalance Be Making You Sick?)